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19 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L Frank Baum · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nineteen, attacked by the fighting trees. The next morning,
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy kissed the pretty green girl good bye, and they
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  Speaker 1: all shook hands with the soldier with the green whiskers,
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  Speaker 1: who had walked with them as far as the gate.
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  Speaker 1: When the guardian of the gate saw them again, he
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  Speaker 1: wondered greatly that they could leave the beautiful city to
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  Speaker 1: get into new trouble. But he at once unlocked their spectacles,
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  Speaker 1: which he put back into the green box, and gave
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  Speaker 1: them many good wishes to carry with them. You are
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  Speaker 1: now our ruler, he said to the scarecrow, so you
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  Speaker 1: must come back to us as soon as possible. I
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  Speaker 1: certainly shall, if I am able, The scarecrow replied, but
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  Speaker 1: I must help Dorothy get home first. As Dorothy bade
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  Speaker 1: the good natured guardian Alas farewell, she said, I have
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  Speaker 1: been very kindly treated in your lovely city, and everyone
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  Speaker 1: has been good to me. I cannot tell you how
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  Speaker 1: grateful I am. Don't try, my dear, he answered, we
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  Speaker 1: should like to keep you with us, but if it
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  Speaker 1: is your wish to return to Kansas, I hope you
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  Speaker 1: will find a way. He then opened the gate of
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  Speaker 1: the outer wall, and they walked forth and started upon
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  Speaker 1: their journey. The sun shone brightly as our friends turned
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  Speaker 1: their faces toward the land of the South. They were
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  Speaker 1: all in the best of spirits and laughed and chatted together.
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy was once more filled with the hope of getting home,
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  Speaker 1: and the scarecrow and the tin Woodman were glad to
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  Speaker 1: be of use to her. As for the lion, he
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  Speaker 1: sniffed the fresh air with delight and whisked his tail
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  Speaker 1: from side to side in pure joy at being in
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  Speaker 1: the country again, while Toto ran around them and chased
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  Speaker 1: the moss and butterflies, barking merrily all the time. City
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  Speaker 1: life does not agree with me at all, remarked the lion,
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  Speaker 1: as they walked along at a brisk pace. I have
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  Speaker 1: lost much flesh since I lived there, and now I
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  Speaker 1: am anxious for a chance to show the other beasts
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  Speaker 1: how courageous I have grown. They now turned and took
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  Speaker 1: a last look at the Emerald city. All they could
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  Speaker 1: see was a massive tower and steeples behind the green walls,
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  Speaker 1: and high up above everything the spires and dome of
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  Speaker 1: the Palace of oz Oz. Was not such a bad
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  Speaker 1: wizard after all, said the tin Woodman, as he felt
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  Speaker 1: his heart rattling around in his breast. He knew how
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  Speaker 1: to give me brains, and very good brains too, said
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  Speaker 1: the scarecrow. If Oz had taken a dose of the
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  Speaker 1: same courage he gave me, added the lion, he would
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  Speaker 1: have been a brave man. Dorothy said nothing. Oz had
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  Speaker 1: not kept the promise he made her, but he had
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  Speaker 1: done his best, so she forgave him. As he said.
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  Speaker 1: He was a good man, even if he was a
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  Speaker 1: bad wizard. The first day's journey was through the green
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  Speaker 1: fields and bright flowers that stretched about the Emerald city
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  Speaker 1: on every side. They slept that night on the grass
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  Speaker 1: with nothing but the stars over them, and they rested
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  Speaker 1: very well. Indeed, in the morning they traveled on until
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  Speaker 1: they came to a thick wood. There was no way
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  Speaker 1: of going around it, for it seemed to extend to
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  Speaker 1: the right and left as far as they could see.
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  Speaker 1: And besides, they did not dare change the direction of
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  Speaker 1: their journey for fear of getting lost, so they looked
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  Speaker 1: for the place where it would be easiest to get
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  Speaker 1: into the forest. The scarecrow, who was in the lead,
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  Speaker 1: finally discovered a big tree with such wide spreading branches
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  Speaker 1: that there was room for the party to pass underneath,
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  Speaker 1: so he walked forward to the tree. But just as
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  Speaker 1: he came under the first branches, they bent down and
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  Speaker 1: twined around him, and the next minute he was raised
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  Speaker 1: from the ground and flung headlong among his fellow travelers.
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  Speaker 1: This did not hurt the scarecrow, but it surprised him,
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  Speaker 1: and he looked rather dizzy when Dorothy picked him up.
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  Speaker 1: Is there another space between the trees, called the lion.
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  Speaker 1: Let me try it first, said the scarecrow, for it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't hurt me to get thrown about. He walked up
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  Speaker 1: to another tree as he spoke, but its branches immediately
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  Speaker 1: seized him and tossed him back again. This is strange,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed Dorothy. What shall we do? The trees seemed to
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  Speaker 1: have made up their mind to fight us and stop
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  Speaker 1: our journey, remarked the lion. I believe I will try
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  Speaker 1: it myself, said the woodman, and shouldering his axe, he
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  Speaker 1: marched up to the first tree that had handled the
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  Speaker 1: scarecrow so roughly. When a big branch bent down to
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  Speaker 1: seize him, the woodman chopped at it so fiercely that
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  Speaker 1: he cut it in two at once. The tree began
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  Speaker 1: shaking all its branches as if in pain, and the
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  Speaker 1: tid woodman passed safely under it. Come on, he shouted
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  Speaker 1: to the others, be quick. They all ran forward and
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  Speaker 1: passed under the tree without injury, except Toto, who was
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  Speaker 1: caught by a small branch and shaken until he howled.
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  Speaker 1: But the woodman promptly chopped off the branch and set
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  Speaker 1: the little dog free. The other trees of the forest
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  Speaker 1: did nothing to keep them back, so they made up
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  Speaker 1: their minds that only the first row of trees could
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  Speaker 1: bend down their branches, and that probably these were the
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  Speaker 1: policemen of the forest, and given this wonderful power in
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  Speaker 1: order to keep strangers out of it. The four travelers
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  Speaker 1: walked al along with ease through the trees until they
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  Speaker 1: came to the far edge of the wood. Then, to
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  Speaker 1: their surprise, they found before them a high wall which
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be made of white china. It was smooth
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  Speaker 1: like the surface of a dish, and higher than their heads.
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  Speaker 1: What shall we do now, asked Dorothy. I will make
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  Speaker 1: a ladder, said the tin woodman, for we certainly must
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  Speaker 1: climb over the wall. End of Chapter nineteen